J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Buildings, Normandy 1826
D23358
Turner Bequest CCL 13
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 13’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with studies of hillside buildings. A large fort-like building is included in the upper right-hand quadrant. These sketches may have been taken at the defensible towns of Mont Saint-Michel or Cherbourg. These towns feature on multiple pages in this volume, lists of which are provided in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-normandy-r1185198, accessed 21 November 2024.